Extended outage? You may have more problems with the rioters but yes that's an issue. I don't believe its a insurmountable problem with a digital currency but afaik offline transactions are beyond the capability of blockchain based currency.
To do that would require an equivalent to cash that didn't loose 2.7% of its value every time it was transfered and it would need to be unfreezeable like cash and as anonymous as possible without compromising the ability to verify the currency as valid and be easy to transfer without much knowledge.
Bitcoin actually has most of that covered. With the exception of ease of transfer. While not anonymous it is still good enough for casual use. I think its best points are no loss on transfer and that your funds can't be frozen *looking at you paypal*
Well personally I wouldn't call a dialysis machine a electric kidney. But then again I wouldn't call a miniature Segway a hover board either.
Here's to hoping medical tech catches up with the rate of advancement of the rest of our electronics. I really was hoping I had just missed out on the announcement as that would have been a huge leap.
In the interest of comparing apples to apples all systems I listed with the exception of the windows vista machine are 64bit and the sizes listed are the windows folder by itself.
32bit windows systems are pretty rare now days. Plus I really like having more than 4GB of ram.
Bad for who? lets see. Gas here is $1.39/gal This is great this influences the prices of a very very large number of things. This lowers the pricing of shipping: usps, ups, fedex, beaver express, ect. That lowers the cost of goods bought in store and online. Contrary to what panictheskyisfallingmedia would lead you to believe most people's jobs aren't dependent on oil.
People didn't get paid more when gas was $4.00/gal and they aren't being paid less now that gas is cheaper.
I read this article the other day that the saudis were having to turn off lights to conserve energy because they couldn't afford the electric now that they weren't making as much on oil.....So somehow now I'm supposed to feel sorry for them?
Someone should tell HP they are supposed to check their software as every single hp/compaq machine I have ever did a wipe/reset with the built in recovery the hp get started wizard is slow and jittery and then after you get into windows it prompts you to allow it to check for updates from hp and the prompt promptly hangs there for a few minutes before it lets you make a selection. It's been like that for years.
What are we talking about? Because windows and more linux distros than I would like are now heavily slanted toward users with touch screens. That's fine if you have a touch screen but even microsoft had to admit windows 8 is crap without a touch screen and while windows 10 does a lot to address the problems I still don't like it as well as 7. But I'm probably not the typical user as I personally don't care if the UI looks like windows NT just as long as it doesn't lag every time I open a window for some fancy graphic effect someone thought looked pretty. Gnome was pretty lightweight a few years ago but last I looked it had as much shiny as KDE. I'm not sure what happened there. It's like firefox being near indistinguishable from chrome from a distance. And now they are ripping out themes support so it stays that way...
How did you get windows 10 to only use 6GB HD space after install and updates? The computer I'm writing this on is a windows 7 laptop the windows folder is 62.6GB. As it happens I have a few machines running windows 10 all up to date: A Lenovo win10 bare install 8.84GB A Dell upgraded from win8 9.49GB A Hp upgraded from win8 15.9GB A Hp upgraded from win8 21.8GB
Windows seems to like space on a old sony vaio VGN-UX490N after reinstalling windows vista from recovery iirc it only had 3GB free space.
Sure you can use nlite and strip out everything but the calculator but still?
Chrome now hangs on startup on several of my older computers ever since the last major version thats not my imagination if I install an older verison of chrome or Firefox it won't do that.
Also has anyone figured out how to fix lonesome smartphone syndrome? You know where your droid gets lonely when left unattended and starts calling people at random by itself?
I was paying $79.99/mo for 1.5mbps/0.256mbps about 10 years ago through wildblue with a 17GB down and 5 GB upload limit. Also over limit was limited to 64kbps and more than 3 over limits in a calender year resulted in termination of service
Its nice to see overall capacity hasn't improved in the last 10 years.
Live in the sticks? I recommend you check this list in order.
Can you get any wired broadband service? Fiber/cable/dsl Can you get any wireless broadband service? Wisp/cellular Can you see the sky? Satellite. You poor bastard. I sure hope you can get isdn or dial-up for backup you'll need it. Still nothing? Where do you live that you can't see the sky? T1/T3 crazy expensive compared to all of the above options but highly reliable and available pretty much anywhere.
When Wildblue started they were renting space on the Anik f2 satellite.
Then they launched wildblue 1 which iirc was rated for 300k users. Its called Exede now owned by viasat. hughesnet owned by echostar has been around longer and had not been increasing their speeds until wildblue entered the market.
The US already has two large satellite internet providers I doubt anyone else will try to enter the market If the sirus xm deal was any indication there will probably be only one satellite internet provider in the US in a few years. Anyone heard of the echostar viasat merger yet?
I highly recommend that everyone uses a satellite internet provider for at least a year. You will never be able to call dsl/cable/pots/cellular unreliable again by comparison.
It would be extremely shortsighted for apple to make it an iMac exclusive. Although I wouldn't put it past them.
Hoping it lives up to the hype. It's 2016 and everyone seems to have "hover boards" that neither hover or resemble boards. Lets not make the same mistake with wireless charging. Just say no to pad type.
I think it will be good because ive yet to see a non pad type wireless charger in the wild. However I worry about apples rabid lawyers who will probbably sue anyone who try's to make anything similar.
Anyone remember the magsafe connectors? Very few other companies are using similar connections even today.
Decent magsafe type headphone and power connectors for other devices are just now starting to come out this year and I've yet to see any of those in person either.
While it's not mentioned in the article ADSL2+ uverse plans upload speed max out at 1mbps unlike the other flavors that have 1.5mbps for the same price.
As for modem compatibility I can't get vdsl so no idea.
While you can actually extract the certificates I am unaware of anyone getting them working on non at&t equipment.
A few years ago the certs expired on some att motorola 2210s and thus wouldn't connect to att's network to update so someone copied the certs off of a working nvg510.
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Same way cellphones do?
Extended outage? You may have more problems with the rioters but yes that's an issue. I don't believe its a insurmountable problem with a digital currency but afaik offline transactions are beyond the capability of blockchain based currency.
To do that would require an equivalent to cash that didn't loose 2.7% of its value every time it was transfered and it would need to be unfreezeable like cash and as anonymous as possible without compromising the ability to verify the currency as valid and be easy to transfer without much knowledge.
Bitcoin actually has most of that covered.
With the exception of ease of transfer.
While not anonymous it is still good enough for casual use.
I think its best points are no loss on transfer and that your funds can't be frozen *looking at you paypal*
Did starters used to be well built enough for that? Afaik anything more than a few seconds cranking risks burning out the starters on modern vehicles.
I still think Ralph Nader was the winner of the 2000 election.
I've seen several smartphones do this just sitting on a table unattended but I've never figured out why.
Butt dialing is a even more common problem but its not what I was talking about.
Well personally I wouldn't call a dialysis machine a electric kidney. But then again I wouldn't call a miniature Segway a hover board either.
Here's to hoping medical tech catches up with the rate of advancement of the rest of our electronics. I really was hoping I had just missed out on the announcement as that would have been a huge leap.
In the interest of comparing apples to apples all systems I listed with the exception of the windows vista machine are 64bit and the sizes listed are the windows folder by itself.
32bit windows systems are pretty rare now days. Plus I really like having more than 4GB of ram.
That's only $90 in overages if your on vzw @ $15/GB I can't imagine why anyone would have a problem with that ;-)
How do you cool that and does it glow?
They have electric kidneys now? How did I miss this? Last I heard people were still using those gigantic dialysis machines.
Bad for who?
lets see.
Gas here is $1.39/gal
This is great this influences the prices of a very very large number of things.
This lowers the pricing of shipping:
usps, ups, fedex, beaver express, ect.
That lowers the cost of goods bought in store and online.
Contrary to what panictheskyisfallingmedia would lead you to believe most people's jobs aren't dependent on oil.
People didn't get paid more when gas was $4.00/gal and they aren't being paid less now that gas is cheaper.
I read this article the other day that the saudis were having to turn off lights to conserve energy because they couldn't afford the electric now that they weren't making as much on oil.....So somehow now I'm supposed to feel sorry for them?
Does windows 10 have ip over firewire support? I know vista doesn't
Someone should tell HP they are supposed to check their software as every single hp/compaq machine I have ever did a wipe/reset with the built in recovery the hp get started wizard is slow and jittery and then after you get into windows it prompts you to allow it to check for updates from hp and the prompt promptly hangs there for a few minutes before it lets you make a selection. It's been like that for years.
What are we talking about?
Because windows and more linux distros than I would like are now heavily slanted toward users with touch screens. That's fine if you have a touch screen but even microsoft had to admit windows 8 is crap without a touch screen and while windows 10 does a lot to address the problems I still don't like it as well as 7. But I'm probably not the typical user as I personally don't care if the UI looks like windows NT just as long as it doesn't lag every time I open a window for some fancy graphic effect someone thought looked pretty. Gnome was pretty lightweight a few years ago but last I looked it had as much shiny as KDE. I'm not sure what happened there. It's like firefox being near indistinguishable from chrome from a distance. And now they are ripping out themes support so it stays that way...
How did you get windows 10 to only use 6GB HD space after install and updates?
The computer I'm writing this on is a windows 7 laptop the windows folder is 62.6GB. As it happens I have a few machines running windows 10 all up to date:
A Lenovo win10 bare install 8.84GB
A Dell upgraded from win8 9.49GB
A Hp upgraded from win8 15.9GB
A Hp upgraded from win8 21.8GB
Windows seems to like space on a old sony vaio VGN-UX490N after reinstalling windows vista from recovery iirc it only had 3GB free space.
Sure you can use nlite and strip out everything but the calculator but still?
Chrome now hangs on startup on several of my older computers ever since the last major version thats not my imagination if I install an older verison of chrome or Firefox it won't do that.
Also has anyone figured out how to fix lonesome smartphone syndrome? You know where your droid gets lonely when left unattended and starts calling people at random by itself?
I was paying $79.99/mo for 1.5mbps/0.256mbps about 10 years ago through wildblue with a 17GB down and 5 GB upload limit. Also over limit was limited to 64kbps and more than 3 over limits in a calender year resulted in termination of service
Its nice to see overall capacity hasn't improved in the last 10 years.
Live in the sticks? I recommend you check this list in order.
Can you get any wired broadband service?
Fiber/cable/dsl
Can you get any wireless broadband service?
Wisp/cellular
Can you see the sky?
Satellite. You poor bastard. I sure hope you can get isdn or dial-up for backup you'll need it.
Still nothing? Where do you live that you can't see the sky?
T1/T3 crazy expensive compared to all of the above options but highly reliable and available pretty much anywhere.
I hadn't even thought of that.
Yes I know the current gen of keyboards and mice run for months between battery changes but still.
Not sure why you would need them to charge. Why not remove the battery entirely then? usable range should be well within the charging area.
Htpc maybe?
When Wildblue started they were renting space on the Anik f2 satellite.
Then they launched wildblue 1 which iirc was rated for 300k users. Its called Exede now owned by viasat. hughesnet owned by echostar has been around longer and had not been increasing their speeds until wildblue entered the market.
The US already has two large satellite internet providers I doubt anyone else will try to enter the market If the sirus xm deal was any indication there will probably be only one satellite internet provider in the US in a few years. Anyone heard of the echostar viasat merger yet?
I highly recommend that everyone uses a satellite internet provider for at least a year. You will never be able to call dsl/cable/pots/cellular unreliable again by comparison.
Eventually but it will be delayed several months while they try to get the shade of white right.
It would be extremely shortsighted for apple to make it an iMac exclusive. Although I wouldn't put it past them.
Hoping it lives up to the hype. It's 2016 and everyone seems to have "hover boards" that neither hover or resemble boards. Lets not make the same mistake with wireless charging. Just say no to pad type.
I think it will be good because ive yet to see a non pad type wireless charger in the wild. However I worry about apples rabid lawyers who will probbably sue anyone who try's to make anything similar.
Anyone remember the magsafe connectors? Very few other companies are using similar connections even today.
Decent magsafe type headphone and power connectors for other devices are just now starting to come out this year and I've yet to see any of those in person either.
Thank you very very much! You've made my month!
I recommend you read about the flavors of uverse; http://adslm.dohrenburg.net/uv...
While it's not mentioned in the article ADSL2+ uverse plans upload speed max out at 1mbps unlike the other flavors that have 1.5mbps for the same price.
As for modem compatibility I can't get vdsl so no idea.
While you can actually extract the certificates I am unaware of anyone getting them working on non at&t equipment.
A few years ago the certs expired on some att motorola 2210s and thus wouldn't connect to att's network to update so someone copied the certs off of a working nvg510.
http://thinkdiff.org/blg/?p=41
Since then a firmware update has been found that will fix them with much less effort.
http://thinkdiff.org/blg/?p=47